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The binary in our shipped image was built with Go 1.26.5. That release has 8 Important CVEs in the standard library, all fixed in 1.26.6:

CVE-2026-56860, -33818, -46600, -56858, -56862, -56853, -56859, -39821

Nothing in the repo prevented this. go.mod asked for go 1.26.0, so any toolchain from 1.26.0 up was accepted, and whatever the builder happened to have is what we shipped.

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go.mod: raise the go directive to 1.26.6.

This is a hard floor. Any toolchain older than 1.26.6 now refuses to build the module, so we can't accidentally ship a vulnerable binary again — the build fails instead.

go.mod: drop toolchain go1.26.5.

That line did nothing useful and one harmful thing. Konflux builds with GOTOOLCHAIN=local, which ignores the toolchain directive entirely — so it was never going to stop a bad build. Meanwhile developers building locally use the default GOTOOLCHAIN=auto, where the line is honoured, and it was telling Go to fetch exactly the release carrying these CVEs.

build/Dockerfile: change the BASE_IMAGE default to the floating ubi9/go-toolset:1.26.

It was pinned to 1.26.3-1780490420, which is how it went stale in the first place. The floating tag tracks the 1.26 stream, so make build-image locally stays close to what CI produces. Konflux overrides this anyway via build-args and currently resolves to go1.26.7.

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@diakovnec: This pull request references ROSAENG-66312 which is a valid jira issue.

Warning: The referenced jira issue has an invalid target version for the target branch this PR targets: expected the vulnerability to target the "5.1.0" version, but no target version was set.

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The shipped image's binary was built with go1.26.5, which leaves 8 Important Go stdlib CVEs open (CVE-2026-56860, -33818, -46600, -56858, -56862, -56853, -56859, -39821), all fixed in Go 1.26.6.

Set the toolchain directive to go1.26.6 so a builder below the CVE floor fails the build rather than silently producing a vulnerable binary. The Konflux builder enforces GOTOOLCHAIN=local, so this cannot trigger an upstream toolchain download that would bypass the RHEL FIPS-patched Go.

Also bump the BASE_IMAGE default from go-toolset 1.26.3 to 1.26.7 so local make build-image matches what CI produces. Konflux overrides this via build-args and already resolves to go1.26.7.

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The Docker build image tag and Go version declaration changed. The toolchain directive was removed from go.mod.

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Update Go toolchain versions
build/Dockerfile, go.mod
The Docker build image tag changed to ubi9/go-toolset:1.26. The Go version requirement changed to 1.26.6, and the toolchain go1.26.5 directive was removed.

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In `@build/Dockerfile`:
- Line 1: Update the BASE_IMAGE default in the Dockerfile to use the supported
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ARG BASE_IMAGE=registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/go-toolset:1.26.3-1780490420
ARG BASE_IMAGE=registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/go-toolset:1.26.7-1790174511

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Use a floating Red Hat Go Toolset tag.

Line 1 selects a build-qualified tag. The default builder will not track later Red Hat-managed updates unless this line changes. Use the supported floating tag for the required Go 1.26 stream.

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go 1.26.0

toolchain go1.26.5
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Make Go 1.26.6 the enforced minimum.

Line 5 suggests Go 1.26.6, but the unchanged go 1.26.0 directive sets the minimum. With GOTOOLCHAIN=local, Go uses its bundled toolchain, so a Go 1.26.5 installation can still build this module. The Go documentation distinguishes the suggested toolchain version from the required go version. (go.dev)

Set the go directive to 1.26.6, or add an explicit version check to every build entrypoint. This makes the older-toolchain failure described in the PR objective enforceable.

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The shipped image's binary was built with go1.26.5, which leaves 8
Important Go stdlib CVEs open (CVE-2026-56860, -33818, -46600, -56858,
-56862, -56853, -56859, -39821), all fixed in Go 1.26.6.

Raise the go directive to 1.26.6 so a builder below the CVE floor fails
the build instead of silently producing a vulnerable binary. The go
directive is what enforces this: the Konflux builder sets
GOTOOLCHAIN=local, under which the toolchain directive is ignored
entirely and only the go directive is checked. go mod tidy drops the
now-redundant toolchain line.

Also switch the BASE_IMAGE default to the floating ubi9/go-toolset:1.26
tag so local `make build-image` tracks Red Hat's z-stream updates rather
than drifting behind, which is how the previous 1.26.3 pin fell four
z-streams below CI. Konflux overrides BASE_IMAGE via build-args and
already resolves to go1.26.7.

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ARG BASE_IMAGE=registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/go-toolset:1.26.3-1780490420
ARG BASE_IMAGE=registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/go-toolset:1.26

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Hey @diakovnec , how about we use a tag like 1.26.7-1790174511? Though 1.26 shall point to the latest, having a specific tag can avoid cache which may still use an older 1.26 version.

https://catalog.redhat.com/en/software/containers/ubi9/go-toolset/61e5c00b4ec9945c18787690#overview

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/hold

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closing in favour of konflux build image

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